Patrick Scheurle is the Chief Executive Officer of BlueOrchard and he was instrumental to the recent majority stake acquisition by the Schroders Group. Prior to that, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer at the company for 3 years. Patrick joined BlueOrchard from Bank Vontobel, where he was in charge of corporate business development and key strategic initiatives. He also held the position of Business Project Manager at Credit Suisse following various assignments as financial analyst and portfolio manager with major Swiss asset management companies.

Highlights: 

Time Stamp:

[02:30] What is impact investment?

[05:26] Manager of the first ever commercial microfinance fund

[07:10] What is microfinance?

[14:00] Financial inclusion, education, reducing poverty and inequality and climate change

[16:40] Microfinance for African private schools

[20:40] Clients of BlueOrchard

[32:03] SPIRIT impact management

[35:00] Performance of impact investments and managing impact

[40:15] Scaling impact investment to the mainstream

[47:10] What inspired Patrick to go into impact investing

Useful links:

BlueOrchard

BlueOrchard Impact Report 2019

Schroders

Sustainable Development Goals

Millenium Development Goals

Bank Vontobel

Mohammad Yunus

Kofi Annan

FT Article - Schroders buys majority stake in BlueOrchard

KWF German Development Bank 

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